My lunch and dinner are a copy/paste of the last couple days. whole grain cream of wheat, with pitted dates and almonds for lunch; protein tea for breakfast; broccoli & cheese stuffed breaded chicken breast, with lemon juice, and roasted broccoli & carrots. I haven't eaten dinner yet, tho it is pretty late. This will be tonight's dinner, after I plate it and warm it, of course Leftovers from the last 2 nights:

Ohhhh so sweet ! My oldest sis just sent flowers 🤍🤍🤍.




Yesterday was actually my birthday. It was also the 2nd anniversary of the day our Mom died 🕊.
Crazy/tough few weeks here in mkkland Quiet here in GREEN land! Hoping the GREEN crew is all well!

~ mk

Happy Election Eve, to any in the US. Covid Day 7 here - still positive. Hubby (who got the updated COVID vax a month ago) is Covid negative today. Day 4 of Paxlovid, man I can't wait til THAT'S done, I have "Paxlovid mouth". A horrible, godawful, disgusting taste in my mouth, that 16% of people who take Paxlovid reported as a side effect 🤧😷

Voted yesterday - absentee ballot dropped in a drop box!
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Ahhh green goodness !! Drinking in the inspo ✨

Covid Day 14 (?), feel like I finally turned a corner yesterday. Still Dayquilling, but I'm not quite so stuffed, quite so tired, and I don't break out into a cold sweat with exertion. First go with COVID, it surprised me! Second week was worse than the first, I have to say (tho neither was dangerous, not trying to say I was super sick, just super cold symptoms).

I made sure to get my veggies on some of the days, but made sure they were green yesterday and the day before. I took photos, just didn't post them.

Same dinner both days yay leftovers), but add'l green serving last night. I had to use big bowl bc of the veggie servings I stuffed into my jambalaya lol.

Both nights: Jambalaya with rotisserie chicken, and full servings each of butter beans, , It's Delish soup vegetables, diced tomatoes, & frozen sweet peas. Last nights bowl had a full serving of frozen broccoli, too. Took me over 2 hrs to eat it, but I ate it. lol

Wed night:


Tue night:



I know it seems like I'm not trying, but I promise you guys, this challenge is changing my diet and my improving my health . I had a 6mo follow-up physical yesterday; my doc wanted to put me on statins at my annual physical, but I said, let me see what I can do with diet/exercise first. Well,

• my A1C was down .1, from 5.8 H to 5.7 H (4.0-5.6);
• my cholesterol was down 12 pts, from 230 to 218 (<240),
• my LDL ('lousy chol') was down 28 pts, from 149 H, to 121 (<130)
• and my weight was down 17 lbs, from 212 (new 'high' score 'yay?'), to 195. It's actually 191 on my scale, but I guess I can't quibble lol).

So, even tho I'm arguably the least successful Greenie here, you guys are helping me immensely, and I plan to keep on slogging thru . I'm in WI for 4 days, from Saturday to Tuesday, so better from covid just in time to travel.

But I'm def keeping on keeping on, promise!
(I'll update my tick marks tomorrow, the 3-wk Hogwarts break ended Monday, I renewed my 'Unbreakable Vow' for the next four weeks (get 1 full serving of greens 4x/wk).

I read recently that substituting nuts, seeds, legumes and peas for processed and red meats can lower dementia risk by 20%.

Cheers,
mk

A lot of my fruit was starting to go (I bought it before hubby left for WI, and before we both got COVID), so I cut the good parts off a bunch of pears, and had a pear and walnut dish for dinner, along with two avocado toasts. Three avocados were in the bowl, I salvaged enough to equal about 2 avocados - I mixed up avocado, lemon juice, olive oil, paprika mix with it all, ate half tonight, I'll have the other half tomorrow: I usually only eat 1 toast and 1/2 an avocado, but I'm leaving for WI 5a Sat, so I gots to eat it 🤷‍♀️. Hubby wasn't hear to share the avocado mixture, so I went a bit wild with the Smoked Paprika 🤣.

Dinner, Part 1 - About 2 Anjou Pears, with Walnuts:



Dinner, Part 2 - Avocado Toast x2, with Olive oil fried died tomatoes, and eggs:

Lovely assistant!
I took another COVID test today, just to check. It's Covid Day 19 and my voice is still rough, I'm still sneezing/coughing (occasionally), and I'm still stuffed up (much less!). No more cold clammy sweats tho (yay!). I'm annoyed as all *kitten* that I'm still symptomatic on Day 19, but it is what it is 🤷‍♀️.

I kept getting mixed up which Covid Day I was, so I checked on my calendar last night. Def Day 19 - I shouldn't still have symptoms :-(. I leave on a 5a flight tomorrow, for WI. Celebration of Life for my FIL. I hope my cold symptoms don't stress anyone out. I'm def Covid neg tho, so it should be ok, I think. 🤞.

Finishing up the last of my fruit. Lunch was the second half of yesterday's avocado mixture. Dinner will be the last 2 kiwis, and bunch of purple grapes. Protein tea to go with, and some kind of nuts. Probably almonds or walnuts, we'll see. I didn't update my tick marks today, as I said I would, but I had a bunch to do today. It's all in my food log, so I can catch it up when I get back .

Wishing you all a lovely GREEN day! ✨ For now - Avocado toast x 2 for lunch (I usually only have 1 avocado toast, but had to use up the avocados so .... lol :